ABC Buys Parents Comedy With Put Pilot Commitment

By Nellie Andreeva on Sep 2, 2014 5:42 pm

ABC’s two strongest comedy series, Modern Family and The Middle, are about families with kids. The network is adding two more — Black-ish and Fresh Off The Boat — this coming season, and now it has put another in development for next season. ABC has handed a put pilot commitment to a single-camera comedy from Judah Miller, executive producer/showrunner on the well received USA comedy Playing House, and 20th Century Fox TV. It centers on Tony Award-winning mother and a cerebral, risk-averse father blessed with a natural-born athlete for a son. They are forced to come to terms with the fact that raising their only child won’t come as easily as they thought. Miller is executive producing with 3 Arts’ Tom Lassally and Jonathan Berry. This is the second put pilot commitment for a 20th TV-produced comedy project today. The studio also sold an ensemble multi-camera half-hour produced by Jason Winer to NBC. UTA-repped Miller has a long history at 20th TV. he spent five years on the studio’s animated comedy American Dad, rising to co-executive producer.

6 Comments

is this a real concept? sounds like a revised version of KIRSTIE on TV land.

Georgia • on Sep 2, 2014 5:42 pm

Miller is married to the Tony Award winning actress Marissa Jaret Winokur so this sounds like it’s drawing from his life. Very funny guy and a fun concept.

Kagwi • on Sep 2, 2014 5:42 pm

The title Black-ish really ABC??????????? Who greenlight this?????? What makes the family -ish???? The title is a horrible turn off and a few of my friends and I feel the same and decided due to the horrible (seemingly derogatory) title, we won’t watch it. And we are not very sensitive people but the title is horrible. From the Cosby show to this title and premise. urrggg.

Fire Paul Lee • on Sep 2, 2014 5:42 pm

Black-ish will soon be Cancelled-ish it deserves to die for having such an offensive idiotic title. This from the idiots who gave us the Geico Cavemen they thought that was a winner and they stupidly cancelled the wonderful George Lopez show in favor of the ugly obnoxious Cavemen. Good going ABC.

Anonymous • on Sep 2, 2014 5:42 pm

Actually, the Geico Cavemen were waaaay more entertaining than George Lopez.

Christy • on Sep 2, 2014 5:42 pm

Judah is fantastic and this show will be hilarious.

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